Towards a nuclear multipolar world and its spillover effects

Abstract

This article analyzes the changes in the international structure after the Russia-Ukraine War and its impact on Europe’s security and spillover effects. The major impact of the war on the security of Europe and the world is the serious reawakening of the nuclear dimension of international relations. This article examines the strategic documents of France and Germany, the two most important military and economic actors of the EU, and the strategic documents of the U.S.A. With the threat of Russian nuclear weapons, Sweden and Finland abandoned their neutrality and applied it to become NATO members. Finland became NATO's 31st member on 4 April 2023. The status of Sweden's NATO membership will be discussed at the NATO Summit to be held on 11-12 July. This study reviews national security and defense strategy documents and reports of U.S.A.-the most powerful state in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), France, and Germany- two powerful states in the European Union (EU) in light of neo-realism. In the post-Russia-Ukraine War analysis of 2022 documents and reports of the aforementioned countries, we will see more complicated and security-oriented international relations in the next decade because of the transition to a nuclear multipolar international structure. The new international structure seems more complicated because nuclear multipolar aspect rather than the bipolar one. States will either seek a nuclear umbrella or develop nuclear weapons in the face of the first nuclear multipolar international structure. This may also affect Türkiye, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Japan, and South Korea. This suggests nuclear proliferation risk.

Keywords

• ukranian war
• nuclear multipolar structure
• neo-realism
• nuclear risk
• ukrayna savaşı
• nükleer çok kutuplu yapı
• neo-realizm
• nükleer risk